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there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

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I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

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I am all astonishment.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

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